Today I was installing a new master cylinder in a 1949 Chrysler Town & Country. After that I started a warranty tire replacement on a 1931 Model A Roadster.
Have wrench, will travel.
This is a weird vacation...
Aren’t the master cylinders down under the floor on those Chryslers where it’s a total PITA to get at?
Yes.
Single reservoir I assume? When I was in HS a blew a hole in a brake line in my 49 Plymouth. That was an adventure.
Single reservoir, this car is getting all new lines as well.
Looking good.
Going fast.
Safety third.
Today is cleanup day. The professional collection managers were at the truck lot yesterday with their cars on jack stands and the wheels off.
My "collection managers" are my wife and my buddy @TomLaferriere and I don't think we are taking the wheels off. But I'll get some photos.
“Wife”, or “collection n manager”………. Hopefully she picks the title that pays the best.
Is there some sense that the judges will take a practical approach to all the cars that went on the drive during the rain? I would hope they’d see cleanliness given some grace compared to keeping it dry in a trailer and not participating in the ride? My understanding is being a part of the drive is a little bit of a point boost acknowledging that the car is more than just a trophy rolled on and off of trailers and never being used as it was intended?
"Collections Manager". I think the wife unit might get a promotion.
I need a collections manager for the empire of dirt out here.
In a show of solidarity for show cleanup day, I cleaned the bug guts off the chrome, the bird turds off the roof, and washed the dust off the wheels. The rest of it is already the color of dust, so I just waved the car duster over it and called it good. The advantages of a brown car. Tomorrow’s show for us is a bit less Pebble Beach and a bit more Town of Bedrock though.
I'll do a topic in the REO forum but 3 hours later @TomLaferriere @MilburnDrysdale @DuesyGuy had our cars clean. Not as clean as they arrived but a lot better than at the end of the tour.
I spent 1/2 of my Saturday trying to get a slow leak fixed on my wife's MDX. Busy day at the tire shops.
Today I painted half of a Mazda that had a wooden fence blow over onto the side of it. Between the front bumper pieces and all the trim it took up two spray booths. Tough to keep track of where all of the panels line up so you make sure your blends are in the right place. The last thing you want is to spray base coat on the wrong side of a bumper and end up with it looking like a 2-tone.
The blends are always fun on metallics like this. You can see how horrible the first coverage coats of basecoat look before you start the blends.😬
Not to worry. A coat of blending clear over the panels gives a bed for the metallic to settle in to so you can start to lose the blends. Now you see it. Now you don’t.
And then the whole thing locked in with clear.
Travis, how good of a match was it?
Actually a fairly close match to start with. But like any metallic color, fairly close ends up looking like a 2-tone if you don’t blend it and try to panel paint it. Especially on the side of the car.
Brakes all done on the T&C. The owner is sending his Piaggio scooter home with me because nobody here can figure it out.
I might be buying a rubber bumper MGB Roadster from him next time.
It never ends...
Is the scooter vintage or one of the newer ones?
It's a newer one, 2007 vintage.
Old enough the dealers are scared of it because it has a carburetor.
Shawn, embarrassing, I know. This was my accomplishment yesterday. I hadn't started and ran this Buick for 2 months since we toured with it 2 month ago. Figured I better make sure it starts. Let it get to operating temp in the driveway. When I went to put it back it was getting dark and I noticed a slight glow from the instrument panel. Looks like the dash lights are on 24/7. That needs to be figured out.
Strange, bet you have a funky ground somewhere and something is backfeeding through the dash lights. Or the switch has something going on.
